HeyJaredPromises Kept
I write about adoption, horses, marriage, friendship, motherhood, food and wine. I’m obsessed with the relentlessness of redemption.
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The most life-affirming places in America (opens the original)
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I’ve felt unsettled recently. My car was in the shop for almost three weeks, the news is enough to make a person tremble at the sheer amount of malaise/evil/disorder in the world, my house looks haunted because of the numerous cobwebs everywhere, which I wish I was clever enough to have put there for dramatic seasonal effect, but instead just make me feel like a failure. When I feel uneasy and stretched thin, the temptation is to rev up the ol’-brain-pan. What the world needs from me is a monolo
Dog Park (opens the original)
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The other day Jesse and I took our newest dog, Rocky, to the dog park. Have I told you about him? The joke is that every time life starts to feel like it’s evening out and getting easier I add a kid or an animal, which is offensive and also true. <img alt=""
A Prayer of Mayonnaise (opens the original)
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Promises Kept is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.May your sandwich be satisfying, may Mom remember the
Re-release: Arrival (opens the original)
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Hello. These are the dog days of summer and so we took it literally and added a new dog to our menagerie. I read an article I should not have read about the mother who strangled her children and I cannot stop weeping for them, those precious babies who deserved better. I am still querying my novel and although I have gotten lots of lovely replies, the one breathtakingly unkind one is the one which I recall. It is this late-summer funk in which you find me, crushed but not destroyed, choosing to
How to cook anything (opens the original)
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Promises Kept is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Salt it. The water, the veggies, the starch. Salt it a
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